Hot air balloon and car roof landing!

[DevonDrone]

Spotted this balloon so pulled over and grabbed the mavic, quick flight and landed on the car roof! (I was sat in the car flying!)

Edited on the ipad pro 12" with LumaFusion

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[hychewright]

Nice video and sky color is beautiful.

 

[DevonDrone]

Nice video and sky color is beautiful.

Many thanks

 

[halley]

I would not recommend making a habit of car roof landing. Landing might be more okay than other maneuvers, but in general, taking off or flying really close to a car's metal body can interfere with the magnetic fields and confuse the compass readings. The Mavic has a tendency to fly first and ask questions later, when it gets confused about the compass.

 

[DevonDrone]

I would not recommend making a habit of car roof landing. Landing might be more okay than other maneuvers, but in general, taking off or flying really close to a car's metal body can interfere with the magnetic fields and confuse the compass readings. The Mavic has a tendency to fly first and ask questions later, when it gets confused about the compass.

Many thanks for the reply, its always been fine tbh, and i've been flying quads and drones since long before gps was added to them so am more than capable of flying without gps if it drops out!!!.

 

[Syphon]

I can't take off anywhere near my truck. The metal throws it off. Never tried landing on it but I know the metal of the truck interferes with it pretty bad.

Was the sky actually that pink or was there some color grading to get it to look like that? Wow.

 

[Kilrah]

i've been flying quads and drones since long before gps was added to them so am more than capable of flying without gps if it drops out!!!.

That's what gets people overconfident - the problem is that since the Mavic has no manually selectable ATTI mode you do NOT get a chance to fly without GPS until it decides to let you do so - it's during that phase where it does whatever crap it pleases while leaving you powerless that problems happen.
You really want to avoid changes in sensor availability with this craft.

Nice clip but not liking the grading at all unfortunately.

 

[Lapeer20m]

That landing was a cool shot!

 

[msinger]

the problem is that since the Mavic has no manually selectable ATTI mode you do NOT get a chance to fly without GPS until it decides to let you do so

Flying without GPS is a piece of cake. The real fun kicks in when the Mavic starts interpreting bogus compass data as good data.

 

[Kilrah]

Yep that's exactly what I said, it's the few seconds where it still considers sensors are valid when they aren't and it does a complete mess before dropping out of GPS mode.

 

[DodgeP]

Not sure what's going on in this video but; okay.

 

[DevonDrone]

All valid points Seems I've been lucky this far then!

 

[DevonDrone]

I can't take off anywhere near my truck. The metal throws it off. Never tried landing on it but I know the metal of the truck interferes with it pretty bad.

Was the sky actually that pink or was there some color grading to get it to look like that? Wow.

Thanks, and yes some colour grading as the sky was a bit blown out

 

[DevonDrone]

Not sure what's going on in this video but; okay.

The description was in my 1st post tbh

 

[DodgeP]

The description was in my 1st post tbh

I would like to be honest but when I am, my posts seems to get deleted by admins. Good Luck - Have fun!